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the taliban. what it tells us about the attack that killed seven people at a cia outpost. the kiss that closed an airport terminal. police think they found the man in newark who triggered the six-hour security problem. two men are under arrest in connection with a new york terror plot. one of them is a new york city tab drooifr. he was arraigned yesterday. the other is a bosnian immigrant. susan candiotti is live from new york. >> reporter: hello, fredricka. through his attorney and from his own father, both say that the man who is accused of an act of conspiracy and terrorist actor is not guilty. the government says otherwise. today, a grand jury, it was announced, charged two counts, two charges of acts against the country. involving a man by the name of adis medunjanin, charged with

conspiracy to commit murder outside the united states as well as getting military training from al qaeda. he has pleaded not guilty to both of the charges. the government indictment alleges that this alleged murder conspiracy happened between august and october of 2008. that, specifically, he got on a plane and traveled in newark international airport to cutter and then to pakistan during that period of time, specifically at the end of august, 2008. fredricka? and he was not allegedly acting alone but there were others involved? >> well, it is alleged that he is an acquaintance of a terror suspect by the na imname of najibullah zazi.

this man today as well as the cab driver who was charged yesterday again are alleged to be acquaintances. however, the attorney representing this man and the other man both have no comment about that. at least one gentlemen or both of them are known according to their lawyers to at least know this other terror suspect. both have denied being involved in any kind of terrorist activities. >> susan candiotti in new york, thanks so much. appreciate that. now, there is new evidence linking the taliban with last month's deadly attack on a cia outpost. it shows the alleged double agent blamed for the attack sitting next to the head of the pakistani taliban talking about the attack in advance. cnn's senior international correspondent, nic robertson joins us now from aman, jordan. nic? >> well, fredricka, according to the attacker, he was attacking

because he had been sent to pakistan as an agent for the jordanian intelligence working with the cia. he said when he got to pakistan he communicated directly with the taliban and planned this attack on the cia base. he also says in his video that this attack was something that was designed to show the united states, the cia and jordanian intelligence that he couldn't be bought off with, as he says, millions of dollars, that his faith was much stronger than that. he also said the attack was in revenge for the killing of a taliban, senior leader. what he said was in u.s. attack. the very clear message here for intelligence agencies is that they had an agent hoo wwho agen tracki tracking down al qaeda leaders and double crossed them.

in this country, umar farouk abdullah mutallab, the man accused of trying to bomb a plane on christmas day has made his first court appearance. >> reporter: waking in a small michigan jail cell, yesterday, he was here at the federal court in detroit. he entered the courtroom very slowly surrounded by u.s. marshalse was walking with some difficulty. the alleged suicide bomber has suffered second and third-decked self-inflicted wounds after detonating that device on board the plane. his feet were shackled, appeared thin, almost frail. his lauren terd a plea of not guilty for the 23-year-old nigerian grad student. the judge asked whether he had taken any medications within the last 24 hours. he did reply that, he why, he was taking pain medication. his lawyer says, despite that, he does understand the charges against him. those include attempting to destroy that u.s. jetliner and kill all 290 people on board the

plane. now, the hearing took just a couple of minutes. when it was over, again, he was let out of that courtroom surround bid u.s. marshal schl. the judge did not fight it. his long journey, he thought it would but in a small michigan jail cell. debra feyerick, cnn, detroit. the ranking member of the u.s. house committee, congressman peter king, said terror suspects should be tried before military commissions, not in civilian courts. king also called on the intelligence community to be more vigilent. he says, the botched christmas day terror attack would never have happened if red flags had not been ignored. >> both parties recognize the need for answers.

so bureaucratic reviews will take place and congressional hearings will be held. that's all well and good. this is about much more than whether the no-fly list gets longer or it takes more time to get through the security line at the airport. this is about whether we have learned our lesson. terrorists still have innocent people in their sights and the will to murder them. they are always working on the next attack, finding their method, searching the globe for new recruits. september 11th is not ancient history. it is all too real. >> police in grease are investigating a bomb attack. an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat. about 15 minutes before the device exploded. police cordoned off the area and no one was hurt. no explosives were found. a new jersey man suspected of triggering a major airport

security scare faces a trespassing charge and a fine of up to $500. police say 28-year-old haisong jiang ducked under a security rope that forced officials to shut down the terminal and rescreen thousands of passengers. this delayed flights worldwide. jiang is due in court next week. 30 degrees below normal in parts of the south right now. live pictures right now from orlando where the skies are beautiful but looks can be rather deceiving. there are freeze warnings and windchill advisories for most of the state of florida. charles needs those contracts tomorrow morning.

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scary weather out here. take a look. this became a common site in atlanta, georgia. folks not knowing what to do about the stuff called black ice. plunging temperatures. it is not over yet. jacqui jeras is in the severe weather center where she has a pretty good purview of what's taking place, not just in atlanta, georgia, but everywhere. it really is a deep freeze in the deep south. >> yeah, it is. it has really been great. >> two-thirds of the country. southwest is doing okay, though. not too terrible.

a good reminder for everybody. this arctic blast hasn't been ta record breaking. we had a couple of record lows from south dakota to texas. aberdeen at 31 below zero. 8 degrees in waco, texas. san angelo, your temperature this morning was only 10 dgs. the windchill still well below freezing. 22 below in fargo. winnipeg, 31 below. minneapolis, minus eight. doing better than the 40s and 50s you have been dealing with in the upper midwest. there, you can see the picture as a whole. you can see los angeles, 73 degrees, making you feel warm for about 5 seconds there. 22 in atlanta. 31 degrees is the temperature your body is feeling in orlando. we have been seeing moisture moving in across parts of florida. you combine that with temperatures near the freezing mark. we have been getting some sleet in some of these areas.

tampa has been reporting. we have seen a little bit in orlando as well as over towards daytona beach. as that freezing line of the arctic air pushes south, we will start to see more. temperatures, how much cooler are they than knocking, look at that. 28 below your average in springfield. 25 below average in new orleans and orlando. 30 degrees below where you should be. some folks trying to have a little bit of fun in this cold air. you have to make the best of the situation. >> i love that, come on. >> our i-reporter said her kids in a half inch of snow decided to try and do a little sledding. >> even if you have to use your heels. >> desperate times call for desperate measures. >> you thought, i am going to make this happen. >> my kids were trying to get snow off mailboxes and everything else. we love your i-reports.

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you could make a short film about robots attacking south america, post it on the internet and post back and sit back while hollywood launches a huge xet tigs for your video services. coming up next on viral rewind.

a look at the top stories. a new video shows the man blamed for the deadly attack on a cia outpost sitting next to the head of the pakistani taliban. it was apparently made ten days

before the attack and in the video. humam khalil abu mulal al balawi calls on jihad to attack u.s. targets. a man accused of touching off a massive security scare is due in court next week. they say 28-year-old haisong jiang dunked under a security rope and forced officials to shut down the terminal and rescreen thousands of passengers. it delayed flights worldwide. he was arrested and charged with defiant trespass. the nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a northwest airlines plane on christmas day has pleaded not guilty. umar farouk abdulmutallab made his first appearance yesterday in detroit. a grand jury indicted him on six charges, the most serious, attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, which could bring a life sentence. much more still ahead in this hour. first, we want to take a short

break. just for a little fun. josh leafs has this week's viral video rewind. >> i look forward to this. >> i do too. we all do. it's fun. nice departure. >> this week, we are starting off with a bit of a newsy story. most internet videos are these amusing distractions with little or no commercial value. we came across one that not only went viral but caught the attention of hollywood. see that boy running. he is going to be looking at huge robots walking their way into town. i mean huge. this is a short film by a filmmaker in uruguay entitled panic attack. these giant robots come and attack the capital city. the filmmaker was quoted as saying it only cost him $300 to make but that would not include all the time and equipment he already had to make this happen. it gets pretty violent. take a look at this.

i mean, they went all out for this video. >> kind of like godzilla with robots. >> that's just what it is like, godzilla with robots. it's set to music called panic attack by this band, snake. the filmmaker now has a $30 million deal from hollywood producer, best known for spiderman. some people are saying, he obviously can do the special effects. will he be able to direct actors. who knows. parents, your kids are into posting videos, you might be some of the people for who it pays off. here is something you might actually see running around outside. take a look at this. this is real. this, fred, is a motor less robot. powered only by the wind. this is real. the creators, this dutch

engineer. they say it is about 15-feet tall, weighs a couple tons. the idea is that robots could do practical things, work on farms. >> is it really windy there right now? >> the way he designed it, a little wind starts it going. it is aerodynamic and moves it's self along. you are not really likely to see that outside but you might see this real life wind-powered phenomenon. look at this thing. there are some tumble weeds but this family posted their video of a tumbleweed stampede. you can hear them laughing. listen to this. they are having a field day. >> their laugh is contagious. >> i love it. enough with the scary stuff even

if it is fun. the ultimate video to chill to. this is a challenge for me. it is all about calming down. take a look here. that's probably why it is going viral. let's watch it. this one is called one year. >> it feels so good. a time-lapsed video shot by a guy in norway who mounted his camera on his deck to record the passing of the year. it's beautiful. i want his house. that's his view. >> gorgeous. >> you can read all about it in his book. >> no stress in his life. look out the window of his home. >> i want that view. it's so awesome. >> listen to the birds. hear their chirping and hear the leaves unfolding. >> i think i'm going to get too calm. some of those videos only take 20 seconds to watch. look at this. this outfielder, josh womack, look at what he is about to do, on a aaa team. you see that. see what he is going to do?

he is going to do that again. he let go of the bat ball, swinging, instead of flying off the infield, it spins and catches it. >> is there a trick to that video? >> it is real. >> i am a stkeptic. >> the state-of-the-art thing. these homes around the world used as platforms for these laser light shows. this is at a country estate in england. all sorts of stuff happens. we are going to end on this last video. take a look at this, fred. this one was done over the holidays. keep it going there, in houston at the convention center. the spectacle made the building seem to come alive. it keeps going and going. look at this.

it is just laser projecting on to the building. so cool. i love it. >> here is how you can send us your favorite viral videos. you have the blog, cnn.com/josh, facebook and twitter, josh le , joshlev@cnn. >> all of those were wonderful. i like the moment of decompression. >> from the great depression to the great recession, how one business is actually surviving both.

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will the business survive the great depression? >> reporter: bob long has been serving customers for 46 years just like his father and his grandfather who started the store in 1911. long's bedding has seen a lot in 39 years but he couldn't foresee this recession. >> i would say this has been the worst, yes, absolutely, the worst i have seen business in -- since i have been here in 46 years. >> reporter: long's company didn't carry any major debt and was in pretty good shape financially. sales fell 20%. he had to take steps to turn around the business. first stop, cutting costs like the yellow page ads the store has taken out for decades. >> i found over the last couple of years that people are going a lot more towards the web and they are not using the yellow pages. i have been paying a fortune for a full-page ad in the yellow book. >> reporter: now, long's wife,

judy, maintains the businesses website at a much lower cost. >> we have also changed our lineup of bedding over the last year, six months to a year, where we brought more reasonable priced bedding to the store, which is what's selling now, the mid to high priced bedding is not selling all that well. >> reporter: he said one thing he won't chain that sets his business apart from the big chain competitors. >> service. we service our customers. if somebody has a problem with a bed, we, ourselves, go out first. >> reporter: despite lower sales, he says, he has refused to lay off his delivery men, including one that has been with the company for two decades. >> i've gotten countless calls from customers thanking me, not for the product, but for our men that went up and made the delivery. >> long says with the combination of great service and a few smart steps, his business will be around for future generations like his daughter terry, who has already worked

here for 12 years, christine romans, cnn, new york. political news coming up. senate majority leader harry reid apologizes for president obama for some controversial comments coming out in a new book. we will see that as we look ahead to a new election season. it's so nice to have company after the accident. aaahhhhh!!! what is it? someone paid me cash! but who? who? aflac. who pays you cash when you're hurt and missing work? aflac. ...cash to help with expenses that health insurance doesn't cover like the mortgage, gas and útod. aflac! ahh!!! what now? someone's standing on my foot.

who could it be?@y another mid-term elections just about to begin. andy bar covers national

politics for politico. also joining us is mark preston. good to see both of you. let's talk about something that could potentially impact any upcoming election. senate majority leader, harry reid, who comes out today saying he is apologizing for a quote that is now about to be printed and out on book stands in a book about politics by two reporters. he is quoted from a private conversation. he is quoted as saying that president obama, while he was a candidate, stands a good chance to be successful because he is, quote, light skinned and speaks with no negro dialect. now, we are getting a statement today by harry reid o who says, quote, i deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. i sincerely apologize for offending any and all americans, especially african-americans for my improper comments. i was a proud and enthusiastic

supporter of barack obama during the campaign and have worked as hard as i can to advance president obama's legislative agenda. let me ask you to tackle this first. a, the real news flash is that these words from his private conversation are part of a book now. harry reid is coming out to try and correct or clean up this. how might this affect his relationship with the president? >> this is terribly embarrassing for harry reid. clearly, he did come out this morning and acknowledge saying those words and try to clean it up. this is not necessarily been a good day. a new poll in nevada shows that he is in deep trouble of winning re-election. this is the third or fourth consecutive poll that shows harry reid, if he were running today, would lose re-election. now, he has to deal with these comments. i will tell you what i expect, fred. i think he will do a lot of contrition. he will say that he is sorry. you will probably see black leaders across the country come out, accept that apology and

then try to move on i don't think this is a fatal thing for harry reid. it is very troublesome. >> andy, how do you see it? >> well, the one thing i think this doesn't affect oddly is his relationship for the president. he has moved mountains for barack obama in terms of advancing his legislative agenda. did just about everything he could to get the 60th vote on health care. there, he will be fine. mark is right. it is this election he has to face. he is already running really close, if not behind. democrats are going to have to spend a ton of money to keep him in office. he has won a lot of close races. a lot of people concerned that he may not be able to pull this off. more fodder. his opponents putting stuff out there. >> does it make a difference that harry reid didn't, either, "a," try to say these were not my words or this was a private conversation, and i don't want to talk publicly about what was a private conversation? instead, he is addressing it

right off the bat that, indeed, it did happen. these were his words. he is apologizing for those words. >> i think too often what happens in washington is when something like this happens, an initial reaction will be to step back and say, that was a private conversation. i don't want to talk about private conversations. harry reid said, look, it's out there. i need to address it. make this a one, two, three-day story and move on as opposed to saying it didn't happen and try to sidestep it. i think harry reid saw that the damage control, the best thing to do was to try to get out in front and apologize. we do know this. he has called the priz aesident said, i apologize for these remarks. >> do we know what the president said? >> we don't know yet. >> the book we are talking about is called "game change." that's supposed to hit bookstores as early as this week. let's talk about somebody else who wrote a book and republicans

are saying, we didn't know you were about to do this. rnc chairman, michael steele, has a book right now, a 12-step program for defeating the obama agenda. a lot are saying we are caught by surprise on this. we don't necessarily endorse this or like it. >> what's going on with the party and this party chairman? >> this has been a week of brutal self-inflicted wounds for michael steele as chairman of the republican national committee. not only is his book coming out with reports to be the pathway for republican reis your jents. in addition, early in the week, he said, republicans can't win the house, which the national republican congressional committee came back and smacked him back. it is rare that you have two campaigns hitting each other. he has done all sorts of crazy things this week. all self-inflicted. democrats don't have to do anything. they have to sit back and watch this whole thing explode. for us, it's been unbelievable.

a new thing every two or three hours. he is doing as much media interviews as he can. there are no republicans who are getting behind him right now. >> accept that he has also canceled some interviews at the last minute too once he got a little bit of heat or heard of the heat that some folks didn't enforce endorse or like the idea of this book. you have to wonder about his political future. this is not good for the party to show this infighting. >> republicans are so frustrated. this time last year, it looked so bleak for them. president obama came in with 75% of the approval rating. democrats had picked up seats in the house. it looked like they were unstoppable. then, we seen this bad space for democrats over the past couple weeks. republicans were jup labilant a happy. michael steele comes out and says things and it really frustrated them. you are seeing a lot of frustration and the party in

turmoil. >> harold ford, tennesseeian. pursuing a new york seat. >> democrats don't want him to do this. he would be a challenge to senator kristen julibrand from the right. the senator from there has said they don't want harold ford to run. >> andy barr, chuck, thanks so much. we appreciate that. a very busy rest of the year as well. 100-mile-an-hour winds plus one reporter equals a big story and a big fall. ouch, and caught on tape.

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100-mile-an-hour winds. it did this to her. ouch. that hurts. >> it does. and, now, everybody in america knows. >> i am feeling for her. >> he was trying to hold ter down t still didn't work. no match for those winds, sorry, girlfriend. it's that fine line right between telling people to not go out in it and trying to stay safe yourself. >> so don't go out there if you don't have to. >> i know, i know. >> find a protective. >> a little reporter involvement. taken to the extreme. >> it was very demonstrative. she let everybody know, you don't want to go out here. >> absolutely. >> a lot of people are slipping and sliding and falling down. we have seen police officers doing it lately. we have seen people trying to get from car to car after accidents occur. there is going to be a lot of that going on over the next couple of days. our arctic grip continues. some people trying to have a little bit of fun out there in this weather. we showed you some letters in

atlanta earlier. now, these are tailgateers in cincinnati. they have got the fire going. that's smart. >> it is fun. >> big game there this afternoon. the wild card playoff game against the jets and those bengals fans are crazy. they don't care how cold it is. the windchill is down in the single digits, low to mid teens. maybe it is the meteorologist in me. maybe it is the mother in me. y'all are not appropriately dressed. >> i was thinking the same thing. with are are your gloves? >> you have to bundle up. it is too cold out there. >> i am a whimp in the cold, layers, layers, and layers. >> that's one of the big things. we have been focusing so much on the southeast and parts of florida too, fredricka. it is so cold here, unusually cold. part of the reason why it is so dangerous for so many people, afrmth "a," your not used to it, "b," you don't have the clothes for

it. we have some rain in the area, even seen sleet in places like orlando. the sunshine state. they had a 5-k at disney, a marathon. temperatures will be below freezing. windchill warnings in effect for almost all of florida. it is going to feel like 30s and 20s in miami. they can see the teens on up to the north. very cold condition. we are bottoming out tomorrow morning for the most part. that's good. we will start to warm up and be close to normal probably by the middle of the week. >> i'm forgetting what normal is, even in january. i don't know anymore. >> never expect normal. >> thanks. take a look at this. i know you like music and you do too at home. ♪ >> aren't they sweet? they are talking about good grades, being a scholar. it has become very, very popular. we are going to be joined by some of the students and one of the teachers responsible for this very cute, cool, smart new video.

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you probably know the words, the rhythm by now. beyonce's song "single ladies," nominated for three grammy's. a hit number one on the billboard charts as well. it has been downloaded more than 3 million times. one more things, the video is now an educational tool.

when students at hope christian school in milwaukee were challenged to create an educational movie video, "single ladies," became scholar ladies. take a listen. ♪ ♪ i've got gloves for my hand, gloves for my man ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ it was so cute. if you learned it, you should have gotten an "a" on it, books on the hips, scholar ladies. i'm joined by some of those scholar students and teachers. we are talking about christian school students demetri clark and aron bradley and one of the teachers you saw in the video, erin huff. very clever, kucute and very

smart. >> who came up with the idea? >> at hope, one of our mon tras is that we are a team and a family. we came up with it. my sixth grade class came up with this song and dance. then, we recorded it on to a computer and we had a video crew come in and tape it. >> oh, my gosh. the vocls aals are so impressiv. >> dmitry, give me an idea what this was like. any idea what it was like to be a participant? >> i was very excited that i was getting a chance to make a video and see what it feel like to make a video. i was elected to sing and dance in this video, "scholar ladies." >> that was such an honor to be elected. erika, what role did you play in all this? how much fun was it for you? >> well, that day, i was absent but it was very -- i feel very

excited about it, because we were actually able to learn how the equipment learned and to make a video about how you actually learn how to learn how your education. >> how difficult or easy was it to get some of the other teachers involved. megan, i see you're a willing participant. it's your class afterall. some of the other teachers here seem like they had a good time being a part of it, too. >> oh, yeah, we were all so happy to use this as an opportunity to show off how hard we work at our school. we're getting our students ready for college so is proud to be a part of it. >> where did the lyrics come from? tell me the process how you came up with the dialogue? >> for the video, the lyrics? >> yeah. >> the lyrics were created over the summer. me and my sister created them and we just opened a brand-new school so i wanted to come up with something so we could each our students the culture of the school. we work hard to get ready for college and the competitive workforce and beyond and i

thought it would be a great opportunity to introduce what it means to be a hope scholar. >> what do you do with this video, what next? the students, you all were challenged to put together this video. come up with a educational, catchy tool. now what? >> we have a couple goals. would you like to talk about it? >> yes. >> all right. you're on. >> one of our goals is to put the music on youtube and we're going to spread the word to everyone we know so we can reach our goal. also, we want other students around the world that hard work pays off. >> oh, yeah. hard work and teamwork paying off since you all did this collectively. fantastic. so of some of your students have any of them said being a participant in the video, writing a song, et cetera, has it changed their mind about future aspirations, megan, or talking about the entertainment industry is something i want to get into? >> the video wasn't made to inspire people to get into the

entertainment industry, but it was made so we would encourage students to climb the mountain to college. our goals right now are to improve two grade levels in reading and math for all of our students. so we're working very hard. >> you think it's going to work now? >> definitely. >> we'll gage the progress. megan hoss at hope christian school and erica bradley and dimitric, thank you very much, guys. we're going to listen a little more. your last name is clark, i'm sorry. let's listen to a little more of your video before we say good-bye. >> thank you. ♪

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vermont, where 72% of adult homicides are domestic violence related and mostly in rural areas. her name is wynonna ward. and her motto is, have justice, will travel. >> when i was growing up on an old back road, family violence was an accepted way of life. this is my mother and i'm the baby here, and my father and my brother richard and my sister pa pa pauline. my father woo commonly abused all of us. he raped me and beat my mother and my other siblings. when the neighbors heard screaming coming from our home, they just turned their heads. for domestic violence victims in rural areas, it can be very devastating. they're out there on these back roads with no access to in-town services. many of them do not have telephones. some of them do not have

driver's licenses for an automobile. so we go to them. my name is wynonna ward. the turning point for me is when a child in my family revealed that she had been abused by my father and my brother. i just said, this has to stop. when i graduated from law school, i was 48 years old. good morning, my dear. i go to people's home, give them i in-home consultation, provide them with free legal services and transportation to and from court hearings. i don't want children to have to go through what i did as a child. i want to see my clients become empowered. i can understand them and they know that i will be there to protect them. >> wow. wynonna ward has helped almost 10,000 victims of domestic violence, 10,000 victims. she drives 30,000 miles a year to do that.

to see the inspiring story of one woman she helped or to even perhaps somebody you think is changing the world, go to cnn.com/heroes. bad weather has many of us at a standstill. jacqui jeras back with us. >> hey, fredricka. yeah, it was a great weekend to stay at home if you can and stay bundled up. our temperatures, 10 to 30 degrees below normal across the eastern two-thirds of the country. ridge of high pressure starting to push in. it will be less cold by monday. only 5 to 100 degrees below normal in the southeast and by midweek, most of us should be seeing temperatures that are much closer to where we should be for this time of the year. in the meantime tomorrow, we'll see 20s in minneapolis. that's a lot better than seeing the windchills in the 20s and 30s degrees below zero. and in terms of weather, we're going to be drying things up. this is a very dry, arctic air mass so we're going to see plenty of sunshine. our system in the pacific northwest quiets down so the good news, i can tell you out of all of this, we're not expng